Title
Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis via a Syntax-Based Neural Network
Abstract
Aspect-level sentiment classification (ALSC); a fine-grained task of sentiment analysis holds the promise of machines communicating knowledge of different aspects of a product/service with humans. Specifically, ALSC aims at inferring the sentiment expressed toward a specific aspect term in a user-generated textual content. It is a long-standing problem in sentiment analysis, and its usefulness cannot be underestimated. Recent studies employ the dependency tree and restructure it to model the syntactic relationship among words in text. However, the restructuring process destructs the structural information of the original dependency tree. As a solution, we first construct a syntax graph that preserves the structural information of the dependency tree. We then propose a reliable syntax-based neural network model that performs a thorough search on the syntax graph to effectively find the relevant contextual information with respect to the aspect term for the sentence encoding. Noting that dependency trees parsed from existing dependency parsers may contain incorrect syntactic dependencies due to grammatical errors in a sentence, we adopt a convolutional layer that takes into account the relations among features of words in a local neighborhood to mitigate the issues brought by incorrect syntactic dependencies. Our results on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our model outperforms the previous methods and achieves state-of-the-art results for the ALSC task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TASLP.2022.3190731
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Syntactics, Task analysis, Context modeling, Neural networks, Sentiment analysis, Feature extraction, Linguistics, Sentiment analysis, natural language processing
Journal
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2329-9290
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richong Zhang123239.67
Qianben Chen200.34
Yaowei Zheng331.76
Samuel Mensah400.34
Yongyi Mao552461.02